8 Life Lessons Everyone Learns Growing Up In North Dakota

We all learn a lot when growing up and there’s many obvious life lessons that would apply to anywhere – like don’t touch fire, or stick metal objects into electrical outlets (I may or may not have learned that second one the hard way, but I digress). There are some things that are learned through experience, some that are taught in our upbringing, and some that just come with living in a certain place. Here are just a few that may come with being from North Dakota – feel free to add your own in the comments.

Many people here have gardens and are very generous with their delicious home-grown produce - especially the ones that have so much of they can barely give away by the end of summer. Anyone want some rhubarb or zucchinis?

3. Be careful on the road - there are a lot of things that are out to get you.

And I'm not just talking freezing winters - triple digit temperatures are not unheard of in North Dakota summers and sometimes come with lots of humidity. And let's not forget the tornado-spawning summer storms to go with our blizzards that last a few days in winter.

I mean, yes the temperatures can get below zero without the windchill and we do get a hefty amount of snow some years, but the windchill can drop to insanely low temps and makes winters pretty harsh. Be careful out there if there's a windchill advisory - those things are no joke!

If you managed to get through childhood in North Dakota and never found a single tick on you, you deserve some sort of monument made in your honor. Are there any of you out there? I genuinely want to know.

Driving on the country roads in North Dakota just because you feel like it is on a totally different level of relaxing than anything else, especially late in the day. And if it gets dark you can stop the car, lie on the hood or truck bed, and stargaze. I've never been able to do similar anywhere else and get the same experience out of it.

How many of these did you learn from living in North Dakota? Have a few more you would add to the list? Share away!